Rail Cargo Group and Innofreight moving closer together
Rail Cargo Group and Innofreight count on cooperation: starting signal for a newly developed InnoWaggon and associated special containers
Signing a cooperation agreement Rail Cargo Logistics – Austria as part of the Rail Cargo Group and Innofreight Speditions GmbH have laid the foundation stone for a close cooperation. At the same time a licence agreement about the production and exclusive rental of InnoWaggons by Rail Cargo Wagon was signed. The new vehicle, protected through several patent – a universally useable, 80ft, light construction container carrier – allows adjusting customised transport solutions to new requirements in the market and by customers on short notice.
The core of this agreement is the joint marketing of rail transportations as well as combined road/rail transportations for loose goods – such as building material, iron products, ores, plaster, coal, coke, round timber, slag, gravel and sugar beets. “Our objective is to implement new rail transportations, but also increase the economic efficiency of existing logistics solutions of the partners through joint marketing of transport services using Innofreight container systems and InnoWaggons“, says Reinhard Bamberger, CEO Rail Cargo Group. Customised elaboration of logistics solutions – as adjusting the boxes to the customers’ requirements – shall convince them with top performance and modern equipment, and expand market shares in the focus markets.
In the course of a joint RailShow by Innofreight, Knauf and Rail Cargo Group in Liezen, Styria, on 8 July, the equipment was presented and demonstrated. DI Peter Wanek-Pusset, managing director Innofreight, referred to the InnoWaggon concept as revolutionary for rail cargo transport. Instead of expensive and complex special wagons, these universal platform wagons (the InnoWaggons) with special boxes will be used. “Using voestalpine’s high strength Alform steels for the first time, we have been able to increase net payload per wagon by about 7 to 10 per cent, protecting the environment at the same time. The InnoWaggon technology will be a standard for bulk cargo transport in European rail cargo transport in 10 years,“ he adds.
„The lightweight wagon of Innofreight and Rail Cargo Logistics-Austria has many advantages such as the additional payload, less loading and unloading operations and shorter trains. This means Knauf can be supplied more efficiently with synthetic plaster for our production by using the new InnoWaggon,“ Otto Ordelt, managing director Knauf GmbH explains the advantages of the new InnoWaggon for his company.
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